Reading reviews before you buy
Before buying a phone or a camera, people often watch several long reviews of the same product. Transcripts let you skim them in a few minutes and compare what different reviewers said about battery life, heat or autofocus. Search for the feature you care about in each transcript and click the line to see that part of the video. Reviews in other languages, common for phones launched first in China, Korea or Japan, are transcribed in the language spoken; the Google Translate link helps you read them, though there is no built-in translation.
Model names and specifications
Tech reviews are dense with names the recognition engine may not know, especially for products released recently. Check these as you read:
- Model names and numbers, which can come out as words or split in odd places.
- Chip names, standards and version numbers such as Wi-Fi or USB generations.
- Units: milliamp-hours, nits, hertz, gigabytes, and whether a figure was a claim or a test result.
- Brand names spoken quickly, which are sometimes spelled by sound.
B-roll, music and unboxings
Many reviews cut between the reviewer talking to camera and product shots over music. The talking parts transcribe well; the montages have no speech and leave gaps. Unboxings filmed at a desk pick up rustling and tapping, which the audio repair switch can reduce. Comparisons of speakers or headphones that play sound samples will include whatever the sample contains, so delete those lines.
Copy the video's address, press Import from link in the upload box above and paste it. The youtube.com/watch and youtu.be forms both work. RocketScribe shows the title and length first, then fetches only the audio track and transcribes it.
For reviewers
If you review products on your own channel, the transcript is the draft of your written review. Export DOCX to edit it into an article for your site, keep the start times to write chapters in the description, and export SRT or VTT for corrected captions with product names spelled properly. CSV with start times helps when you maintain a spec table across many reviews.
Sponsor reads and affiliate mentions are transcribed like any other speech; keep or delete them as you need. Only transcribe videos you have the right to use. A transcript of someone else's video is fine for your own notes and research; republishing it may need the owner's permission.